Ditching-level.



PATBNTED JUNE 26, 1906.

0. HALVORSEN.

, DITGHING'LEVEL.

APPLICATION FILED MAE.8, 1906.

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UNITED STATES "OSCAR HALVORSEN, OF MODESTO, CALIFORNIA.

DITCHING-LEVE'DL.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, i906.

Application filed March a, 1906. Serial No. 304,860,

To all whpm it may concern: 7 7

Be it known that I, OSCAR HALVORSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Modesto, in the county of Stanislaus and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ditching-Levels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus which is especially designed for the work of leveling where water-ditches are to be laid out over ground not varying greatly in its surface.

It consists in the combination of parts and details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which 4 Figure 1 is an elevation and partial section of tripod and support, showing side elevation Fig. 2 is an elevation showing end view of level-support.

It is the object of my present invention to provide an easily-operated and universallyadjustable support for leveling instruments such as are used forthe purpose stated.

A represents a device which is designed to receive the. leveling instrument. It consists of a channeled box-like form having a central flange A extendin downwardly and adapted to be adjustably secured to the part 2. This part 2 consists of a pair of plates which are twisted so that the lower ends stand at substantially ri ht angles with the upper end. The part A of t e levelholdin dev1ce is perforated, and the upper ends of t e lates 2 are also perforated to receive a bo t 3, which passes through the two lates' 2 and the tongue or extension A, w 'ch lies between them. Around the bolt 3 is a spiral spring 4, outside of which is a nut 5 and interme-- diate washer, and by the adjustment of the nut upon the screw-threaded bolt any desired tension may be brought to compress the plates 2 against the intermediate plate or tongue A, so-that it ma be held in any desired relative position; ut the not so eat as to prevent the hol er A from being tilted longitudinally about the bolt, so as to allow the level to be brought into. the desired osition. l

The evel itself may be secured the holder A by means of a thumb-nut or other equivalent device.

The lower ends of the plates. 2 inclose and clamp upon the upper end of, a plate 6, the head of which is perforated to correspond with similar perforations in thvlower'ends of 'l the plates 2.

ressure is The bolt 7 passes through this joint, having a spring 8 and a thumb-nut 9, with suitable intermediate washers, so that any desired tension of the spring may be produced, and this clam s the joints formed by the plates 2 and 6, w 'le allowing them to be turned with relation to each other and at right angles with the plane of movement of the level of the carrier A. .The lower end of the plate 6 has a head 10 formed upon it, and

this restsupon the-head or plate 11 of the tripod 12. Connected with the plate 6 and head 10 is a bolt 13, extending down through the tri od-head and having a thumb-nutle upon' t e'lower end. Between this nut and the bottom of the tripod-head is, a spiral spring. 15, with washers at either end, and t e extension of this sprin is adjusted by the nut at the lower end of the bolt. The

bolt is turnable in the tripod head or plate 11,

so that the-level may be set to point in any desired direction by simply turning it and the parts with which it is. connected.

In operation the tripod or support may be set as nearly level as can be estimated without regard to the osition of the supported parts. The level instrument may then be ointed in the direction of the line of ditch to he laid out by turning the su port in the tripod-head 11. It is then leve ed by means of the two sup orting-joints between the plates 2 and 6 and 2 and A. The compression of the springs is sufi'icient inall cases to maintain the parts at any point of adjustment, and the' whole setting takes a very short space of time. I

Having -thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 611b,

1. In a leveling apparatus, a tripod or supv 2. In a levelingiapgaratus, a tripod having a fiat perforated a plate extending upward therefrom, havin a screw-threaded bolt extension passing t ough the plate, a head resting upon the top of the plate and a spring and tension regulating means whereby IIO the plate is turnably supported on a verticalclamped with a yielding pressure, and a support and level turnably carried upon the upper ends of said plates.

3. In a leveling apparatus, a tripod having a head, a plate having a shank extending through said head, an adjustable yielding pressure device whereby the plate is turnable about its vertical axis, a pair of plates yieldingly clamped to and turnable upon the upper end of the first-named plate, a level-supporting clamp connected with the upper ends of the pairs of plates and standing at right angles with the lower connection, and a yielding adjustable pressure device whereby said.

plates are clamped together.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

V OSCAR HALVORSEN.

Witnesses:

ANNA M. HALvoRsEN, ADA S. JAoKsoN. 

